Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:56:11 -0700 From: Ivan Kohler <ivan@iqualify.com> To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW Message-ID: <19990706155611.A20797@ivan.iqualify.com> In-Reply-To: <37806620.7FF2531@dataskill.co.uk>; from Nick Taylor on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM %2B0100
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I am using 3940s (specifically, two 3940UWs and a 3940AUW). I don't think all 3940s are broken. On the other hand, had I not watched a hang-on-boot problem follow a card between several machines (but only with 2.2.10 kernel - the "broken" card worked fine with 2.2.7 kernels), I may not have sent it back and gotten a working one. On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote: > Hi > > This sounds suspiciously like the problem that I have been having with 3940s. I believe that > the current aic drivers are broken for 3940s - As soon as I try to use 2 hds at the same time > (either on the same or different channels) my machine hangs. I am currently using only one > drive on the 3940 and the others on a 2940 which is fine. > > Hoping for someone to address this problem soon. > > Nick > ---- > > Jeffrey Veiss wrote: > > > Calling all SCSI experts: > > > > I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card. To start off, > > here's the specs: > > > > Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16 > > AMD K6 233MHz CPU > > 128M SDRAM > > Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT) > > Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap) > > See below for more info > > > > The Problem: > > > > I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition > > on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted. > > This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work > > on why later. The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy > > was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5). As > > it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors. Every reboot > > has the same result. The only major change to the system was a > > motherboard BIOS update. > > > > > > Things I tried: > > > > o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running > > fsck on sda5. > > > > o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running > > fsck on sda5. > > > > o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke > > around too much (cd's & ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots. > > > > o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much > > eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash). > > > > o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash. > > > > o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled. > > > > o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted. > > > > o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still > > crashes. > > > > o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine. I did a thorough scandisk on > > all EIDE & SCSI partitions with no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine. > > > > o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago > > and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip > > drives, has been working fine. > > > > At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities include > > hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS > > mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No really, why > > does Windows 98 work? :-) ) > > > > Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated! > > > > Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at > > jsv@sirveiss.com. Thank you very much! > > > > Jeffrey Veiss (jsv@NOSPAMsirveiss.com) 13 Lynn Court > > Network Engineer/System Administrator Somerville, NJ 08876 > > Sir Veiss, Inc. (908) 431-1318 > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Here's some other useful info: > > > > Significant IRQ's: > > > > 3 COM2 > > 4 COM1 > > 5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32 > > 7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 > > 10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 > > 11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet > > 14 Enhanced IDE Bus > > 15 USB > > NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ivan Kohler <ivan@iqualify.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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